![]() There are 16th Century burgher manors encrusted with Gothic gables and scrollwork, and flamboyant wedding cake buildings offering prime examples of the local Weser-Renaissance architecture, all leering gargoyles and brightly coloured polychrome wood carvings. Boyer’s tour leads visitors past rows of half-timbered houses. While the tale has endured, so has Hamelin itself, which still looks as though it belongs in a fairy tale. Entranced by the notes of his flute, the transfixed boys and girls followed the Piper out of town and simply vanished. ![]() When the town refused to pay the Piper for his service, the saviour turned into a more satanic seducer and came for Hamelin’s children. They weren’t the only ones lured by his music, though. Trailing after the hypnotic notes of the rat-catcher’s magical flute, the rodents politely filed through the city gates to their presumed doom. ![]() And although each writer tinkered with the story, the basics remained the same: the Piper was hired by Hamelin to rid the town of its plague of rats. Originating as medieval folklore, the story inspired a Goethe verse, Der Rattenfänger a Grimm Brothers’ legend, The Children of Hamelin and one of Robert Browning’s best-known poems, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The tale in fact has survived for a very long time. ![]()
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